Posted on 11/09/23
| News Source: Arutz-7
A new report published on Wednesday by HonestReporting shows that Gaza-based photojournalists from prominent international news agencies crossed into Israeli territory to document Hamas’ October 7 attack against Israeli towns located near the Gaza border.
The organization noted that “Hamas terrorists were not the only ones who documented the war crimes they committed during their deadly rampage across southern Israel. Some of their atrocities were captured by Gaza-based photojournalists…whose early morning presence at the breached border area raises serious ethical questions.”
HonestReporting wondered what these photojournalists were doing in Israeli territory so early on what would ordinarily have been a quiet Saturday morning and asks whether their presence was coordinated with Hamas. “Judging from the pictures it seems like the border has been breached not only physically, but also journalistically,” it said.
It also featured now-removed posts on X from a reporter who documented himself standing in front of the Israeli tank and wrote: “Live from inside the Gaza Strip settlements.”
“Let’s be clear: News agencies may claim that these people were just doing their job. Documenting war crimes, unfortunately, may be part of it. But it’s not that simple,” said HonestReporting.
“It is now obvious that Hamas had planned its October 7 attack on Israel for a very long time: its scale, its brutal aims and its massive documentation have been prepared for months, if not years. Everything was taken into account — the deployments, the timing, as well as the use of bodycams and mobile phone videos for sharing the atrocities.”
“Is it conceivable to assume that ‘journalists’ just happened to appear early in the morning at the border without prior coordination with the terrorists? Or were they part of the plan?”